The FUCKGOATS
is an auditableTrue Random Number Generator
produced by the infamous NSA. What does this mean?

Auditable

By not inspecting the tools on which your life and reputation rely, you are,
without question, placing your trust in the manufacturers of those tools.
Such trust is unavoidable, as survival is a joint effort, and
is even desirable, the alternative being a lonely and painful solipsism.
But not all forms of trust are equal; there is trust given
consciously and willingly, and that given otherwise.

This distinction, of implicit and explicit trust, is a prime
determinant in the status of master or slave, or along similar lines,
of personhood and nonpersonhood.
For we may take a reasonable measure of personhood,
being true individuation of will,
to be the degree to which implicit trust is avoided, and
deliberate trust is achieved. Or on the flip side, the degree to
which one is enslaved by a power may be measured by the level of
implicit trust one is forced to place in that power, usually by
threat of violence.

The implications quickly follow. For instance, we see that existence in the
web of trust
is a mandatory component of personhood, as without it you are operating
with implicit trust, not trust by choice. That is to say, without the
web of trust, the very possibility of true choice simply disappears.

And for another implication, you may see the existence of technologies
which you must use but cannot trust (and no, it being
"open source"
is besides the point: do you trust someone who has understood the code?),
as clear evidence of your slavery. It's that simple.

So as to the point of auditability, we understand that, any tool in which
we do not place our conscious, informed trust (by trust in ourselves or
through a trusted other), is a tool which amplifies our slavery. For
those who aspire to personhood, the ability to audit a tool is an
atomic and effective means to personal development.

And to those who say, "But esthlos, certainly it's not possible to
place conscious trust in everything; I don't place trust in
the asteroid belt that it will not hurl a meteor in my path tomorrow,"
note that you are correct, though missing the point: the degree
to which your trust is explicit delimits the power of your will.
Human will is somewhat limited, at present. (" Work is of two kinds: first,
altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to
other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.")

True Random Number Generator

Vaguely, a computer might be said to have a true random number
generator if the output of that generator cannot be predicted
given its previous outputs and the entire state of the computer. This
is directly opposed to psuedorandom number generators, whose output
can be predicted (usually exactly) on the basis of its history
and the computer state (that is, the generation is algorithmic). To be clear,
when we say "predicted", we don't mean exactly, but with probability
better than chance.

As is excellently explained, the
existence of a source of cryptographic entropy is vital to
individuation and personhood, along similar lines the auditability above.

Show Me The Facts

Though an iron-level audit of the FUCKGOATS is beyond my current ability,
auditing the output is easy. In fact, the entire use of the thing is a pleasure:
just plug it in, and read bits from it:

dd iflag=fullblock if=/dev/ttyUSB0 bs=1K count=102400 of=fg.bin

No firmware, drivers, or other nonsense: what a relief!

The ent utility tests for what might be
most accurately called the information density of its input. Here's
what it thinks of fg.bin: